Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 178
"Have you been obliged to toil in this way from your childhood?"
What happens: oblige, toil · To what, where: you, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 obliged | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 toil | mark |
| 7 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toil | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 childhood | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toil | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | toil in a quote | to-infinitive | this way | from your childhood | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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